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Do capelin larvae deposit daily increments in their otoliths?

Ivarjord, Trond; Pedersen, Torstein; Moksness, Erlend
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2004
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Abstract
Analysis of increment formation in larval fish otoliths has provided valuable information

about growth, transport and mortality processes of larvae in wild stocks, but the technique has

not been widely used on capelin larvae. As part of a programme (BASECOEX) aimed to

investigate recruitment dynamics of capelin in the Barents Sea, otolith microstructure analysis

was used on larvae of known age reared in plastic bags. In enclosure validation experiments

in 2002 and 2003, newly hatched yolk sac larvae were stocked into eight 10m3 plastic bags

where environmental conditions were kept as natural as possible. The bags were emptied after

about 35-79 days, the surviving larvae were collected and the otoliths were analysed in order

to test whether there was daily increment formation. Survival in the bags was very high,

ranging from 40-76%, and individual growth rates varied with an average of 0.23 mm per

day. Fast-growing larvae formed more increments than did slow-growing larvae. The average

formation of increments in the otoliths was 0.76 per day. The larvae with an above average

increment formation rate, however, formed one increment per day. On average, the larvae

start to form increments 12 days after hatching, and the increment width decreases by age

and/or length of the larvae. Increment widths of the 2002 group were higher than for the 2003

groups, despite the fact that the 2003 group had higher body length growth rates than the

2002.
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ICES
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ICES CM documents
2004/DD:09

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